Article archive / October 1, 2013
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 2. Source pages: 5.
According to a press release in August by the LA Department of Health and Hospitals, Louisiana recovered more than $124 million fraudulent payments in the Medicaid program.
This came from criminal and civil penalties in the Fiscal Year 2012 according to figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. That is the highest rate of recovery in any state in the nation at nearly 2 percent of all Medicaid dollars spent in Louisiana. On average, states recover less than 0.6 percent of their respective Medicaid budgets.
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